Sappho Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful thingsand your tongue were not concocting some evil to sayshame would not hold down your eyesbut rather you would speak about what is just If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

2. You are, I think, an evening star,the fairest of all the stars.

3. ]]you will remember]for we in our youthdid these thingsyes many and beautiful things] ]] If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

4. ]Sardisoften turning her thoughts here]you like a goddessand in your song most of all she rejoiced.But now she is conspicuous among Lydian womenas sometimes at sunsetthe rosyfingered moonsurpasses all the stars. And her lightstretches over salt seaequally and flowerdeep fields.And the beautiful dew is poured outand roses bloom and frailchervil and flowering sweetclover.But she goes back and forth rememberinggentle Atthis and in longingshe bites her tender mind If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

5. ]sing to usthe one with violets in her lap]mostly]goes astray If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

6. Come to me now once again and release me from gruelling anxiety. All that my heart longs for, fulfil. And be yourself my ally in love's bayttle.

7. Eros the melter of limbs (now again) stirs me - sweetbitter unmanageable creature who steals in If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

8. Eros, again now, the loosener of limbs troubles me,Bittersweet, sly, uncontrollable creature….

9. gathering flowers so very delicate a girl If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

10. In fact she herself once blamed meKyprogeneiabecause I prayed this word:I want. If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

11. neither for me honey nor the honey bee If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

12. their heart grew coldthey let their wings down If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

13. ἦλθες, ἔγω δέ σ᾿ ἐμαιόμαν,ὂν δ᾿ ἔψυξας ἔμαν φρένα καιομέναν πόθῳ. Poems and Fragments

14. καὶ ποθήω καὶ μάομαι Poems and Fragments